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Urdu speakers of these States continued to press until the Government agreed to accommodate the regional languages in the syllabus for such schools. In the Hindi speaking areas also, Urdu speaking students are learning Hindi enthusiastically. schools,
There is no conflict between the interests of linguistic minorities and those of the State official language. Whatever facilities are provided to the linguistic minorities would not be at the cost of the 5.152
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official languages. This point is appreciated by the State Governments also. Any step that diminishes or curtails the employment opportunities of any linguistic groups hits them hard. if the group happens to be industrially and commercially backward, its State
on services is greater and hence any dimunition of chances causes hardship and despair. The Committee recommends that the State Governments should reassure the linguistic minorities that entry into the services will not be denied on dependence
of lack of knowledge of the official language but that the candidates will have to account
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proficiency and pass a departmental test in the State official language before confirmation. As regards the standard of the departmental examinations in the official language of the State conducted before the completion of probation, effort should be acquire
to keep it at the level of proficiency. made
In the beginning, difficulty was experienced in a number of States in the matter of registration of documents, etc., in Urdu. The difficulty has been overcome to a great extent in recent years. 5.153
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5.154 In Karnataka, there was a complaint that under the Societies Registration Act, it has been made obligatory to issue notifications in Kannada only. This was causing hardship to Urdu speakers. The State Government later on clarified that no such specific provision existed in the Act. In Madhya Pradesh documents in minority languages are not accepted for registration unless accompanied by Hindi transon
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